I'd love to see someone go back to the original Lensman books that Lensman was very (!!!) loosely adapted from and do those ships. I especially want to see the original Brittania as well as Kimball Kinnison's "Speedster".

Mind you, if the reported live action version of the first main book in the series, Galactic Patrol gets made, we may see some interesting interpretations. Supposedly JMS is doing the writing on it - which is appropriate because he's a strong fan of the novels.

What would be interesting would be to do a launch diorama of the Space Clipper from 2001 according to the novel. It's launched from the back of a fly-back booster that uses a launch track. I'm thinking that a scaled-up P.1134 but with wing-tip verticals might do for the booster.

Interesting and quite nice looking but they don't match the description of the "fly-back" booster that Clarke put into his novel. I'd be sorely tempted to do one clipper with these boosters and one more along the lines of Clarke's description.

To begin with, has anyone ever tried to model the Messiah spacecraft from Deep Impact?

I've always wondered what is preventing the first human space warships to look like much-enlarged space shuttle......

I'm first and fore-most a Wing Commander guy though.

Top: the Epee. Paper-thin armours, so-so energy shield, and the ability to carry a torpedo despite being a light fighter.

Bottom: Excalibur, a heavy fighter.

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Forget about his bow and arrows- why wait until that sparrow has done his deed when I can just bury him right now 'cause I'm sick and tired of hearing why he wants to have his way with the cock robin!?

Replacing the prop-rotors with large ducted fans might work, though I'm not sure what you'd gain beyond being able to execute a straight-ahead landing without bending or breaking stuff. I'm not at all certain, though, how practical that fan unit in the tail is. Besides you have it exhausting right down on to the troops storming down the ramp; not generally a good idea.

Replacing the prop-rotors with large ducted fans might work, though I'm not sure what you'd gain beyond being able to execute a straight-ahead landing without bending or breaking stuff. I'm not at all certain, though, how practical that fan unit in the tail is. Besides you have it exhausting right down on to the troops storming down the ramp; not generally a good idea.